...That wasn’tpleasant hearing, for they had been brigaded with us on the Somme...
John Buchan 「Mr. Standfast」
...Sir Archie had been one of my subalterns in the oldLennox Highlanders, and had left us before the Somme to join the Flying Corps...
John Buchan 「Mr. Standfast」
...I always liked theplace, for after the dirt of the Somme it was a comfort to go there for a bathand a square meal, and it had the noblest church that the hand of man everbuilt for God...
John Buchan 「Mr. Standfast」
...Onthe tableland beyond the Somme valley the sun shone like April...
John Buchan 「Mr. Standfast」
...For the enemy toattack towards the Somme would be to fight over many miles of an oldbattle-ground where all is still desert and every yard of which you Britishknow...
John Buchan 「Mr. Standfast」
...The situation in Champagne was still obscure, but someFrench reserves were already moving thence to the Somme sector...
John Buchan 「Mr. Standfast」
...I had been present atthe big preparations before Loos and the Somme and Arras, and I had come toaccept the racket of artillery as something natural and inevitable like rain orsunshine...
John Buchan 「Mr. Standfast」
...Thecountryfolk call it the “Silent Land”, and during the first phaseof the Somme battle a man in Amiens could not hear the guns twenty miles off atAlbert...
John Buchan 「Mr. Standfast」
...TheBoche was over the canal this morning, and by this time most likely he’sacross the Somme...
John Buchan 「Mr. Standfast」
...“The front’s piercedin several places and we’re back to the Upper Somme...
John Buchan 「Mr. Standfast」
...Not that he didn’t fight hard in the centre where we were, but hehadn’t his best troops, and after we got west of the bend of the Somme hewas outrunning his heavy guns...
John Buchan 「Mr. Standfast」
...All that was done habitually in Picardy, and the ceremonyof the torches is not entirely forgotten, especially in thevillages on both sides the Somme as far as Saint-Valery...
Sir James George Frazer 「Balder The Beautiful, Vol. I.」
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